Sayings on Responsibility

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. Johann von Goethe

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
Anthony Robbins

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens. Epictetus

If you never make a person responsible for their own actions by offering excuses and no accountability, you will never help to encourage personal development.
Byron Pulsifer

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them. Broderick Crawford

"I must do something" always solves more problems than "Something must be done." Author Unknown

Responsibility: A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one's neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.
Ambrose Bierce

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility.
Albert Einstein

No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility. Napoleon Hill

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
Joan Didion

No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself. William Penn

The great thought, the great concern, the great anxiety of men is to restrict, as much as possible, the limits of their own responsibility.
Giosué Borsi

Why do children want to grow up? Because they experience their lives as constrained by immaturity and perceive adulthood as a condition of greater freedom and opportunity. But what is there today, in America, that very poor and very rich adolescents want to do but cannot do? Not much: they can "do" drugs, "have" sex, "make" babies, and "get" money (from their parents, crime, or the State). For such adolescents, adulthood becomes synonymous with responsibility rather than liberty. Is it any surprise that they remain adolescents?
Thomas Szasz